Thursday, 25 September 2008 LAME is
an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the
LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics,
noise shaping and speed of MP3. LAME is not for everyone - it is distributed as
source code only and requires the ability to use a C compiler. However, many
popular ripping and encoding programs include the LAME encoding engine.